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Fig. 36. — Lake Champlain at Plattsburg, X. Y. The marsh grass is the 

 narrow-leaved wild rice (Zi::au{a aqiiatica). The plants rise only a foot or 

 two aljove the surface of the water. This species is distinctly smaller than 

 the wide-leaved wild rice {Z. paliistris) found so aljundantly in the marshes 

 around Washinoton. 



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Fii,. ij. — The sJKjre of Lake Chaniiiiain at I'lattshuri:. .\. ^ . liu' .yras.s 

 shown in l"ig. 3S was found ajunv; thr --ii ire mar here. 



